Inheriting dictionary

[Jan Kaliszewski]

18-08-2009 o 22:27:41 Nat Williams <nat.williams at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Pavel Panchekha  
> <pavpanchekha at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I want a dictionary that will transparently "inherit" from a parent
>> dictionary. So, for example:
>>
>> """
>> a = InheritDict({1: "one", 2: "two", 4: "four"})
>> b = InheritDict({3: "three", 4: "foobar"}, inherit_from=a)
>>
>> a[1] # "one"
>> a[4] # "four"
>> b[1] # "one"
>> b[3] # "three"
>> b[4] # "foobar"
>> """
>>
>> I've written something like this in Python already, but I'm wondering
>> if something like this already exists, preferably written in C, for
>> speed.
>
>
> Why complicate this with a custom object?  Just use regular dicts and  
> make b a copy of a.
>
> a = {1: 'one', 2: 'two', 4: 'four'}
> b = dict(a)
> b[3] = 'three'
> b[4] = 'foobar'

Because, as I understand Pavel's intent, it has to work dynamically
(e.g. changes in 'a' reflect in behaviour of 'b'), and obviously not
only for such trivial examples like above.

*j

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Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <zuo at chopin.edu.pl>